We've had reports that some miners (Ufasoft, jgarziks' cpuminer, maybe others) have problems with our pool. We're working on fixing those issues. For now, at least with cpuminer, disabling long-poll should help.

We're accumulating miners (we love all of you!) and we're all hoping to see the first block come through soon. We're also working on some new features:

Sorry for the interruption, but we are now live with more features and open registration. Most future upgrades shouldn't require this type of service interruption. This particular one required us to upgrade our bitcoind instance, and we wanted to backup all the critical files (wallet, blockchain, etc) to be on the extra cautious side.

We have have CPU miners fixed, and have removed restrictions on long poll connections. Also, SSL, and open registration for all!

Just as a side note, the global hash rate (and the hash rate for your miners) may be a little low while while things average back out.

Do spread the word, we need to grow our little pool so we can find our first block!

We've decided to completely drop fees form the line up. We are going to be a 0% fee pool!

Also, I am putting 1.5 BTC of my own money up for grabs to the person whole finds the winning share for our first block. If that person happens to be myself or any other member of the bitp.it crew I will simply carry my reward over to the 2nd block found. I want one of you guys to get this reward.

Do spread the word, we need you're mega hashes, and I'm willing to pay for it

Also, I am putting 1.5 BTC of my own money up for grabs to the person whole finds the winning share for our first block. If that person happens to be myself or any other member of the bitp.it crew I will simply carry my reward over to the 2nd block found. I want one of you guys to get this reward.

I'm also throwing in 5.5 BTC, so a total of 7 BTC to whoever finds the block.

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Also, I am putting 1.5 BTC of my own money up for grabs to the person whole finds the winning share for our first block. If that person happens to be myself or any other member of the bitp.it crew I will simply carry my reward over to the 2nd block found. I want one of you guys to get this reward.

I'm also throwing in 5.5 BTC, so a total of 7 BTC to whoever finds the block.